1. BOHEMIAN PHASE Rachelle Buch Fabia Hossain Hollan Vander Hey Tyler Adams

2. Overview  1618-1625  Historians divided the Thirty Years' War into four parts; Bohemian Phase being the first.  People you need to know:  Archduke Ferdinand  Calvinist Nobles  Frederick V  The Spanish  Duke Maximilian of Bavaria  The Dutch

3. The Start (Archduke Ferdinand)  Fighting started over the election of a new king for Bohemia.  In 1617, the Bohemian Estates accepted the Hapsburg Archduke Ferdinand as their king.  Was elected due to Matthias not having an heir  Ferdinand was a devout Catholic who began a process of re-Catholicizing Bohemia, Calvinist State, and strengthening royal power.

4. The Start cont. (The Rebellion)  The nobles that elected Ferdinand immediatly regretted their decision causing them to rebell.  In May 1618,the nobles proclaimed their resistacne by throwing two of the Habsburg governors and a secretary out of the window of the royal castle in Prague.  Prague was the seat of the Bohemian government.

5. Catholics believed they were saved due to the Virgin Mary, while the Protestants say it's because they landed in manure.

7. A New Beginning  The Bohemian rebels now seized control of Bohemia, got rid of Ferdinand and elected a new ruler.  Elected Frederick V, the ruler of Palatinate and the head of the Protestant Union.  Ferdinand refused to accept his deposition. I’m King now. #blessed Darn #notblessed

8. Battle of White Mountain (November 8th, 1620)  Ferdinand was aided by the forces of Maximilian of Bavaria and the Catholic league.  They defeated Frederick and the Bohemian Nobles.  Outside of Prague on Nov. 18, 1620  Marked the first major victory for the Roman Catholic

9. Battle of White Mountain cont. (November 8th, 1620)  The Spanish troops took advantage of Fredrick's situation by invading the Palatinate and conquered it.  Frederick fled into exile in the United Provinces.  Spanish took control of the western part of Palatinate and Duke Maximilian of Bavaria took the rest.

11. Results  Reestablished Emperor Ferdinand as the king of the Bohemia.  Also declared Bohemia a hereditary Habsburg possession, confiscated the land of the Protestant land.  Established Catholicism as the sole religion  The Spanish renewed their attack on the Dutch and the forces of Catholicism seemed on the road of victory